The first time blew me away with the flood of the recollection of the stunning events. The second time was to reassure myself I’m not going completely nuts, but by the third viewing, I started to relax and realize that this madness has to end.

Well worth the time.

This episode was the most straightforward and honest assessment of the last week or two in the Trump Administration. Oliver masterfully removes any doubt: this is the most unorthodox and blatantly corrupt administration ever.

“Stupid Watergate,” where the crimes committed are far more serious, but everyone involved is really stupid and bad at everything they try to do, leads Oliver to ask four basic questions:

What the f*ck is going on here?

How big a deal is this?

Is this real life?

Where do we go from here?

Don’t miss Oliver’s rip on Jared Kushner as a ‘person of interest.’ He may technically be a person, but he is in no way ‘of interest.’ Oliver equated him to a white bread sandwich with the middle being another piece of white bread, ‘or as Mike Pence would call it, the devil’s hoagie.’

It’s hard to believe that it was only last September, however, that Trump and his minions were finding HIllary’s IT staff guilty on the spot for invoking the same rights Michael Flynn uses today. In the video above, Trump tells the crowd taking the fifth is “like the mob.”

Really, Donald?

There are tweets by the dozens declaring all Hillary aides guilty because some nameless IT guys were not interested in being dragged before a committee by Jason Chaffetz. I took a screenshot of this classic:

Talking heads are so desperate to find some trace of normalcy in the Trump administration that they’re praising Trump’s trip to the Middle East as “historic” simply because he read from a teleprompter, didn’t drool on himself, and managed not to openly insult anyone.

But on Morning Joe this a.m., Richard Haas put his finger on the real danger: Judgment.

“Selling $110 billion of arms to Saudi Arabia is not doing to make the problems of that region better,” he said.

“I don’t think so. We’ve tried it. The second is, at some point, sensible people, certainly the president of the United States, has to help lead the Sunni stronger, more confident Sunnis toward make kind of easing of this terrible tension with Iran, which is ripping the Middle East apart.”

Katy Kay added, “And all the president’s trip and speech did yesterday was pour oil on the flames of the rift that is growing from Sunnis and Shias in that area of the world. It’s hard to see in the long run how that improves peace.”

“Let’s create our own game– one founded on the ideals of integrity, sustainability, cooperation and realizing the promise of self-government. It’s not up to them– we’re the stewards of this democracy.” –Katie Hill, Blue America ‘18 candidate in CA-25

Even the worst Democrats in Congress have caught on to the fact that railing against Trump is profitable. A case can be made that it is Debbie Wasserman Schultz who is responsible, at least as much as Putin or Comey, for installing Trump in the White House. And now she sends e-mails several times a week begging for money by robotically denigrating Trump.

Being anti-Trump doesn’t mean a politician backs a progressive agenda. Wasserman Schultz, who opposes John Conyers’ Medicare-For-All Act, for example, and is still the poster gal for DC corruption, can be anti-Trump ‘til the cows come home but that doesn’t mean anyone in their right mind should back her against progressive primary challenger Tim Canova.

As you’ve probably noticed, effective and sincere Resistance Leaders in Congress– people like Ted Lieu, Elizabeth Warren and Pramila Jayapal– aren’t just sending out fundraising emails for themselves; they’ve been putting together the foundations for what congressional resistance to Trump and Trumpism looks like.

After it ended raining all day, the sun came out bright making the damp air seem thick and strange. The sounds of the new album from Thurston Moore, Rock N Roll Consciousness, may have added to that feeling.